FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities (9442a811-dab3-11e7-b5af-a4badb2f4699)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105067

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

If an X.509 certificate has a malformed IPAddressFamily extension, OpenSSL could do a one-byte buffer overread. [CVE-2017-3735]

There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure. This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen. [CVE-2017-3736] This bug only affects FreeBSD 11.x. Impact : Application using OpenSSL may display erroneous certificate in text format. [CVE-2017-3735]

Mishandling of carry propagation will produce incorrect output, and make it easier for a remote attacker to obtain sensitive private-key information. No EC algorithms are affected, analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely.

Attacks against DH are considered just feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private key that is shared between multiple clients. [CVE-2017-3736]

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105067

File Name: freebsd_pkg_9442a811dab311e7b5afa4badb2f4699.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 12/7/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:freebsd, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Settings/ParanoidReport, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-3735, CVE-2017-3736

FreeBSD: SA-17:11.openssl

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